yè
profession
Original meaning:
attack
Simplified character from the top 5 strokes of the traditional 業. Depicts a person (大) carrying a weapon (丵). Based on the original meaning "attack". The meaning later shifted to "expand territory" and "develop business".
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 69.6140% of movies
490th most common character in movies
130th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4E1A |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.168-169
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